Brain Fertilizer

This post highlights the fact that some people like to risk other people's lives in playing their political games.

Please understand this: homosexual behavior is risky and costly, both to the individual engaging in it and the society that condones it.

If you get past PC group-think and accept that uncomfortable fact, you can actually get to the next question: Is it worth the risk and cost to condone homosexual behavior? The answer to that question is not as automatic as Andrew Sullivan or Jerry Falwell might think. That is where you get into the realm of personal choice with risk, and society taking steps to encourage/discourage or even circumscribe certain behaviors. It is a discussion in the realm of facts and statistics rather than distortions and feelings and "should be"s. It's too bad the debate is absolutely controlled by people who ignore inconvenient facts like the ones Susanna discusses in her article.